Is there a basic mailing list for version notification? (5 posts)

I looked at your READ THIS FIRST post and found the two mailing lists offered, but these have a large amount of posts per month. I have also looked at all the mailing lists at http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/ and cannot find a list that would just tell me when WP updates. I arrived at 2.05, then I found the current issue was 2.07, I log in today and BAM! we are on 2.1

I am subscribed to the announcements list named in my profile that says I would get a few messages a year, but I have never received version update information, in fact nothing at all. Is this list not working, not posted to or is my anti-spam methods too high?

Thank you Michael for the reply. Yes I should really look at the Dashboard, but I tend to log direct to the blog, as I found this generally quicker when updating my ciontent so regularly. Perhaps the powers that be could look into this issue as it is an obvious need I would think.

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I see it on every blog I own, and I have a lot of blogs on many hosts.